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TWO DIE IN HOSPITALS OF AUTO INJURIES William Post. Struck by Hit-Run Driver, Passes On. HURT FATALLY BY CAB Ohio Man Is Taken by Wounds Suffered on Nov. 11. Two men died early today at Indianapolis hospitals as a result of auto accidents: William Post, 63. of 1665 South Delaware street, succumbed at St. Vincent's hospital from injuries received Friday night when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver at Madison avenue and Minnesota street. Police, with a description of the death auto, are seeking the driver.Hurt Fatally by Cab Post, when taken to the hospital with one side of his face torn away and suffering from internal injuries, regained consciousness and told attaches he “was going to get well.” Injuries suffered when he was struck by a cab. Nov. 11. at Noble street and Massachusetts avenue, caused the death of E. C. Haideman of Bellefontaine, 0., at the city hospital. Haldeman had been in a serious condition since the accident, suffering from internal injuries. Driver of the cab. Leonard Keith, 33. of 628 North Meridian street, was charged with assault and battery at the tune of the accident and Coroner Charles H. Keever today reopened the probe of the case. Woman Is Injured Mrs. Charles Mayer, 4525 Park avenue, suffered back injuries Friday afternoon when a truck, driven by J. E. Goodhue, 50. of 2622 Brookside avenue, struck her auto at Fortieth street and Broadway. Mrs. Mayer was thrown from the rear seat, of the car by the impact. Others injured in accidents: Jake Wilsop. 25. of 1623 Holliday street, and Alvin Robinson. 25. of 1621 Holliday street, body and face injuries, and Wallace Lewett, 6, of ; 4508 North Keystone avenue, right leg broken. LEOPARD KILLS BOY: OWNER FEARS MOB Homicide Hearing Delayed Because Threats Against Exhib s tor. By United Press LITTLEFIELD. Tex., Nov. 22. Threats against Charles Howard, owner of a leopard that clawed to death 4-year-old James Elvins, were made today after his hearing on charges of negligent homicide had been postponed.. Officers transferred Howard to a Plain view (Tex.) jail because of public feeling against him. His hearing, scheduled for Friday. was postponed when officials feared citizens might make an attempt at mob reprisalHoward was exhibiting the animal in a drug store when it clawed the Elvins child, who died several weeks later. TOM MOONEY'S CASE IS CALLED OUTRAGE So Unjus f It Blots Law Profession, Cl irence Darrow Says. ft; Scripns-Hoicnrd Sacspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—“ An unspeakable outrage.” Such, thinks Clarence Darrow, is the MooneyBillings scandal in California. “I have practiced law for fifty vears,” he said on a visit here. “In al lthat time I have never seen a case in which the evidence of justice miscarried has been so obvious. "Who should know of their innocence better than the trial judge, who now asks pardon for Mooney and BlUings. or the jurymen, the detectives, one of the prosecutors, all of whom are petitioning for release of these two victims?” “Every one should be crying out against this outrage. Lawyers particularly should, since it affects the integrity of their profession: but they’re too busy thinking of fees.” BANDIT PRETENDS TO BE COP: OBTAINS $69 Store Manager Is Held Up by Man Posing as Special Officer. Police today were searching for a bandit who posed as a special officer Friday night and held up Walter Stedfeld, manager of a drug store at 4901 North Pennsylvania street. The bandit obtained $69. According to Stedfeld the bandit accosted him as he left the store requesting a lift in Stedfeld's car on the strength of being a special officer. Stedfeld was robbed near his home, 5615 North Pennsylvania street, and forced out of his auto. The car was recovered by police.

FAVORS BIG BOND ISSUE Commission Approves Insull Plea for $17,750,000 Securities. Insull utilities securities totaling $L7,750.000 were approved by the public service commission at their Friday afternoon conference. The Issue will consist of $14,000,000 in refunding mortgage gold bonds bearing 4*4 per cent to be issued later. All are on Northern Indiana Public Sendee Company properties

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 168

Bandit Slain in Grocery Holdup

I ‘Boring Burglar’ Victim; Second Man Makes His Escape. Gunfire of Carl Rugenstein, 44, operator of a grocery at 2101 Pleasant street, Friday night, killed one of two bandits who attempted to rob him. The other bandit escaped. The dead bandit is William E. Sorrell, 24, of 2230 North Rural street, known as the “boring burglar” who served a term in the state reformatory in 1929. Rugenstein told police the men came into the store and asked for cigarets. Suspicious of them, he released the safety on a small revolver he carried in his pocket. He said as he turned, Sorrell told him they didn’t want cigarets, but money. Fires Seven Times Rugenstein drew the gun and the men fled. Sdrrell carrying a revolver. Grabbing a Luger automatic pistol from the counter. Rugenstein followed them to the door and fired seven times. He said he saw one of the bandits stagger and his bandit companion dragged him. Sorrell’s body, with two bullets in his back, was found under a loading platform at the Sexson coal yards, Harlan street and Hoyt avenue. Police found him by following a trial of blood. Promised to Go Straight A man. believed to be the bandit, went to Sorell’s home shortly after the shooting and told Byron Smith, Sorrell’s brother-in-law, that Sorrell had been wounded. Following his parole on the one to ten-year sentence for a series of grocery robberies, Mrs. Sorrell said her husband had promised he "would go straight.” She said he left the house shortly before the shooting, asserting he was going to sell insurance. HANGING BARES POISONSCHEME Danville Woman Plotted to Kill Relatives. By United Press DANVILLE, Ind.. Nov. 22.—A poison plot in which an entire family of three persons may be the ultimate toll was revealed here with the death of Miss Ruby Kesler, 40, and critical, illness of her mother and sister. - Miss Kesler hanged herself late Thursday. Friday her mother, Mrs. Eliza Kesler, 65, and her sister Ruth, became violently ill. They told Coroner W. G. Lawson that they believe Ruby placed poison in coffee she gave them shortly before her suicide. No motive for the suicide and murder attempts has been disclosed. Relatives believe Miss Kesler was driven insane by illness. Mrs. Kesler may die, but the daughter has a fair chance to recover. Farmer Asks Divorce By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Nov. 22.—Nimrod Carver, farmer, has filed salt fur divorce from Mrs. Caroline Carver, alleging she refuses to live on his large farm as she agreed to do before their marriage Sept. 3, 1929. Carver has children by a former marriage. Bread Prices Cut By United Press SHELBYVILLE, Ind.. Nov. 22. I Bread prices reached the pre-war | level when bakers announced a cut I of 2 cents on one and one-half-pound loaves and 1 cent on onepound loaves. Low wheat prices are ascribed as the reason for the ; reduction.

BLIZZARD PILES SNOW TO EAVES CN COLORADO

By United Press DENVER, Nov. 22.—Mountainous snowdrifts today impeded progress of searchers for three persons who became lost in a blizzard which swept virtually the entire western United States. The storm took a toll of three lives, hundreds of head of livestock and untold property damage, and piled up snow to the eaves of homes in southwestern Colorado. Rocky Mountain states bore the brunt of the blizzard’s fury. Some towns in Colorado and Wyoming dug out today from under the heaviest pre-Thanksgiving snowfall in weather bureau history. Rail, air and automobile traffic slowly returned to normal. Searching parties doubled their efforts in quest for two men and a boy, feared victims of the storm.

GANGS’ HANDS IN NEW YORK’S POCKETS FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 22.—New York racketeers have their hands in the pockets of citizens from the cradle to the grave, according to Thomas C. T. Crain, district attorney, who has formed a “committee of public safety” to rid the city of tribute-levying gangs. The district attorney summarized letters he has received from alleged racket victims. One said virtually every pier

New Head of City ‘Business’ Group Resigns

The Indiana Business Men’s As- ■ sociation, Inc., again is without, a • president. James D. Ermston, attorney, who was named president after Thomas C. Whallon, former city judge, resigned, today informed The Times he had withdrawn “because of business reasons.” “The association’s business was out of my line and I find I can’t attend to it,” he said. Several weeks ago it was reported that Ermston was preparing to withdraw and he then declared he had given orders that further reports of misconduct on the part of employes would bring his resignation. He said today the resignation was written Oct. 23, but did not take effect until late Thursday. 2 CONVICTED ON ARSON CHARGES South Bend Business Men Will Appeal Verdict. Bu Times Special ST. JOSEPH. Mich., Nov. 22. Claude E. Nicely and Maurice L. Hurwich, South Bend (Ind.) business men, stand convicted today of arson, as a result of the verdict of a jury in Berrien county circuit court here, returned to Judge Charles E. White after about three and one-half hours deliberation. The conviction carries with it a penalty of from one to ten years in the state prison. Defense attorneys signified immediately that the conviction would be carried to the Michigan supreme court, and Judge White granted them twenty days in which to perfect the appeal. The court announced that Nicely and Hurwich could remain at liberty under the $15,000 bonds which each posted after their arrest jast spring. The St. Joseph Board and Paper Company plant here was destroyed by fire Jan. 29, 1928, about six months after Hurwich and Nicely obtained a lease and option on the property with a down payment of SI,OOO. : FATHER WINS BATTLE AS CHILDREN RUN TO HIM Fight for Custody Ends iii Modification of Restraining Order. By United Press RENO, Nov. 22.—Two children, w T ho, innocent of court dignity, ran delightedly into their father’s arms when he appeared in court, swung the pendulum of justice in favor of George M. Evans, Washington, D. C., realtor, in a bitterly contested child custody case here. Judge Thomas F. Moran granted a motion for modification of a restraining order which prohibited Evans from seeing Hawley, 8, and Sylvia, 4, and allowed him one hour each Saturday with the children. The wife, Mrs. Anne S. Evans, daughter of the French countess, Festitico Delona, contested the modification act, claiming Evans might kidnap the children. Convention to Be Arranged By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 22. Directors of the Indiana division of ' the Travelers Protective Association have selected May 8 and 9 as dates of the 1931 state convention to be I held here. S. M. Pettijohn, Muncie, state president, and O. F. Stevens, Indianapolis, state secretary, w T ill atj tend a meeting here Nov. 29, when I preliminary arrangements will be i made for the convention. At- , tendance of 500 is expected.

Drifts, five to seven feet deep, retarding their progress. A widespread search was in progress for P. H. Strong. 35, rural mail carrier, who was caught in the blizzard near Lamar. Search was made in New Mexico for James Tilford. 36, Denver, last seen fifteen miles from Raton, where he became separated from companions on a deer hunting expedition. Snowplows were used near La Junta, where the snow was banked to the roofs of small dwellings, in an attempt to locate a 13-vear-old Japanese boy who failed to reach his home after leaving a rural school. More than thirty inches of snow fell in Trinidad, Colo., and northern New Mexico in forty-eight hours. Drifts nearly twenty feet high were reported outside Trinidad.

and railroad station in the city is under racketeers’ domination. Gangsters levy a tribute of 3 epnts on every hundredweight of freight delivered in the city, it is charged. A conservative estimate of the racketeers’ income from. this source, Crain. figured,. would be $5,000,000 annoaUy. Agents of .the chief racketeer check up on loading and’unloading, and merchants receiving goods must pay in proportion to size of consignments.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1930

HOOSIER FOES ON EDGE FOR GRiDCLASSK Pat Page’s I. U. Eleven Hopes for Upset Over Purdue. DOPE AGAINST CRIMSON Powerful Boilermakers Are Ready for Invasion of Old Rivals. BP Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 22.—Pat Page led his Indiana U. football cohorts here today with the announcement that “We’ll capture the ‘old oaken bucket’ if it takes till sundown.” The “bucket” in question is the coveted trophy which the Pagemen have been attempting to take away from Purdue for the past four years. On the surface, this appears to be a broad statement by the genial Irishman from Bloomington, but the fact that precedent has decreed the Hoosiers upset at least one major foe during the season gives it some strength. The Crimson-clad warriors have failed to accomplish such a feat this season, or even garner a major triumph. Boilermaker Line Powerful The obstacle between the Pagemen and their annual upset feat is a big and powerful team, one of the outstanding gridiron machines in the midwest. Coach Noble Kizer has developed a line that has outplayed every opponent this year, while the ball-lug-gers have been clipping off an average of more than four yards an attempt against five conference foes. Except for half of 1925, when the two rivals battled to a draw and shared the bucket, the aivard has resided in Purdue’s trophy case through three consecutive Boilermaker triumphs. Many Upsets Since 1899 On dope, the Lafayetters are figured to retain the victory emblem today, but dope means little in these battles. Since the series was started in 1899 there have been many upsets, and a surprise win by the Hoosiers today is not impossible. Page has had two weeks without a game in which to revamp his battered squad and sharpen it for the encounter. He reportedly has developed a wide, open atttack which will get its first test today. Approximately 25,000 fans will witness the experiment; FINE - ONLY PENALTY IN GRAPE JUICE SALE U. S. Faces Problem If Concentrate for Wine Is Held Illegal. By United Press . WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—Tta government will be unable to invoke the more severe penalties prescribed for violations of the prohibition laws if it is held illegal to advertise and sell the new' grape concentrate, which easily is converted into w r ine. It was revealed today by Prohibition Director Woodcock that a SSOO fine would be the maximum penalty for first offenders. This development further complicated th eproblem confronting prohibition enforcement officials as a result of the activities of Fruits Industries, Ltd. of California. The grape concentrate is produced by this co-operative organization, which is being aided by federal farm board loans, DUNN NAMED GUARDIAN Auditor Learns Poor Farm Resident Possesses Valuable Property. Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash Friday appointed County Auditor Harry Dunn guardian of the estate of an elderly resident of the Marion county poor farm who owns property upon which she realizes a comfortable income. The woman, Mrs. Laura Bell McDugell Wehling, resident of the infirmary for three years, said she was penniless when she applied for admission to thb poor farm, according to Dunn. He as-:td the guardianship in order to reimburse the county for keeping the woman, Dunn said. POOL OPEN TO PUBLIC Hoosier Athletic Club Arranges Swimming Event Tonight. The Hoosier Athletic Club pool will be open to the public tonight. There will be prizes for boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 14 years, both for fancy diving and speed swimming. Races will be in free style, backstroke, breast stroke and relay. Jack Shaffer and William Shurgot, both champions, will give diving exhibitions.

In soma cases, it was charged, the tribute also includes a portion of the cargo. * u *_ 'T'HE city's largest merchants are paying gangs... it was alleged. The tetter writer said steamship’ and railroad companies had done nothing to stop exaction of tribute, probably because they were unaware of the evil. . Victims invariably suffer in silence rather than take the consequences of refusing, to pay or

48,000 to Watch Rockne’s Irish Clash With Purple

WELLER WHOOPS IT UP!

Great Indian Player Faced by Butler

Four score and seven years ago, Louis Weller, fullblood Caddo Indian, shown above, might have been carrying a tomahawk in that sinewy right hand, in-

SWINE HOLD STEADY AT CITY STOCKYARDS Cattle Mostly Nominal ;JV*ealers Sell 50 Cents Off. Hogs generally were steady this morning at the city stockyards, prices for bulk, 100 to 300 pounds, holding around $8.30. An early top price of $8.35 was recorded. Receipts were 6.500; holdovers, 168. In the cattle market slaughter clases were nominal. Receipts numbered 100. Vealers were selling 50 cents lower at $10.50 down. Calf receipts were 100. Sheep were steady with good and choice lambs making a market at $7 to SB. Receipts were 300. Chicago hog receipts 10,000, including S.OOO directs. Holdovers 2,000. Market opened around steady with Friday’s average. Several loads good and choice weighing around 190 to 230 pounds, sold at $8.25 Early top $8.30 for choice of 215 pounds. Cattle receipts 200. Calves 200, and steady. Sheep 2,000; nominal. LEASE PROBE TO tEST Senate Postal Sites Investigation Likely to Be Recessed. Bu Scripvs-Hotcard XetesDaver Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—The postal lease investigation by a special senate committee headed by Senator Blaine of Wisconsin probably will take a short recess after this week's session in St. Paul. Senator Blaine expects to spend Thanksgiving in Wisconsin and then come to Washington. In the hearing to be resumed here next month, Senator Blaine has stated that important facts and figures wall be brought out. Clothing Stolen From Auto Theft of clothing valued at $l9O from the parked auto of T. S. Catlin, 2945 Central avenue, was reported to police today. The auto was parked at Maryland and Illinois streets.

making direct complaints to the police. Letters received by Crain describing the “milk racket” only served to confirm what had been known for some time, he said. The .“laundry racket,” also described in some of the letters, indicated independent laundries, and cleaning and dyeing establishments annually pay in excess of $1,000,000 tribute to gangs. One complaint charged racketeers even had invaded the business of burying the dead.

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stead of a football. But his tribal gods probably are satisfied, for his success at spilling palefaces with the pigskin is famous.

BY VERN BOXELL HIS mother called him “Little Rabbit” and that’s still his name among the Caddo tribesmen. When he entered Haskell Institute they christened, him Louis Weller. To the footbal world he’s the Albie Booth of the Aborigines, 145 pounds of real football player and a-s good a broken field runner as wears moleskins today. He comes to Butler bowl today to demonstrate his hip-wriggling, straight-arming gridiron war dance to Coach Harry Bell’s Bulldog warriors in the Fairview home-coming feature. On the western plains, where Weller has been a scourge to the football teams that stood in his path, he i

is an idol. People who have seen him play during the last two years will tell you that Albie Booth, the great little Yale half back, couldn’t carry Weller’s headgear into the park. Jack Grover, veteran western official, calls Weller one of the greatest players of this football generation. Knute Rockne has labeled him “one of the outstanding backs in the country.” Lone Star Dietz, former Purdue mentor, now directing Haskell’s grid activities, says he is the greatest since Jimmy Thorpe, and. next to Thorpe, the greatest open field runner he ever has seen. Famed as Scorer Dietz doesn’t have to go far for evidence to strengthen his claim. In every game this season, “Little Rabbit” has run fifty-yards or more for a touchdown. In the opening tilt against Washbum college, he returned a punt fifty yards for a touchdown. Against Kansas he ran eighty yards from a scrimmage for a touchdown, and turned in two brilliant thirty-five-yard dashes. Whoop in 17 Tongues Against Wichita, he ran sixty-five yards from scrimmage for a touchdown. In the Creighton tilt, he raced fifty-four yards for a touchdown after snagging a pass, and against Oklahoma Aggies, he returned the kickoff for ninety yards and a touchdown and later ran ninety-five yards from scrimmage for a second marker. He was responsible for two touchdowns in the battle with Gonzaga U., but missed his first game in two

IN certain parts of the city no funeral coach on the way to a cemetery is free from the usual y levy. Members of orchestras are required to pay $1 to racketeers for each night they work, regardless of whether they are on part time or full. Refusal, they said, usually results in the victim being blackjacked or in destruction of his instruments. .

years last Saturday against Southern Idaho. In addition, he has made hundreds of yards from' scrimmage. Weller holds the American record for the longest run, taking the kickoff from Creighton last year and returning 105 yards for a touchdown. His ability does not stop at ball carrying. He does most of the passing for the Indians, being equally adept with either hand, and is a star defensive player against passes and a hard, sure tackier. The Haskell team, of which Weller is captain, can v/hoop in seventeen tribal tongues. That many tribes are represented on the team.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 22.—The majority of stocks moved up fractionally at .the. opening today. A few held unchanged ahd a few others were off slightly. The list in the early trading held in a narrow range with trading quiet. United States Steel opened unchanged at 148%, while small advances were made by Texas Corporation, Westinghouse Airbrake, Wool worth, American Telephone, Case, Montgomery Ward and Standard. Sears, Roebuck opened at 54, up %, on 2,000 shares, and then rose fractionally from that level. Early losers included Radio, Bethlehem Steel, Gold Dust, TransAmerica, International Telephone, Fox, United Corporation, Union Carbide, Simmons and Chrysler. All were down small fractions. Trading was uninteresting in the first few minutes of trading. Sears. Roebuck continued in demand, while Radio-Keith-Orpheum resumed its rise in fairly active trading. Coppers were easier. oMtor shares also sold off slightly. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West wind, 8 miles an hour; temperature. 38; barometric pressure. 30.32 at sea level; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 10 miles; field, good. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 34 8 a. m..... 34 7 a. m 33 9 a m..... 33

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WINNER MAY BE NATIONAL GRID CHAMP Ticket Scalpers Draw Down Prices Ranging From S2O to $75. SOLDIERS GUARD GATES Notre Dame Rules Favorite to Down Wildcats in Midwest Classic. BY DIXON STEWART • United Press Staff Correspondent EVANSTON, 111.. Nov. 22.—Notre Dame and Northwestern the middle wests only undefeated and no-tied football teams—meet today at Dyche stadium before 46.000 fans in a game which will decide western, and possibly, national, championship honors. Because of the records and acknowledged strength of the two teams the game attracted as much interest as any game ever played in Chicago. Only 48,000 will witness the game, but three times as many made unsuccessful application for tickets. Scalpers experienced no trouble in securing prices ranging from S2O to $75 for tickets and a detail of 100 Ft. Sheridan soldiers and 25 Evanston policemen has been detailed to turn ba;k expected “gate crashing” attempts. Win 7 Games in Row Northwestern already lias won a. clear claim to a share in the Big Ten conference honors and can win recognition as leading claimant for western and national championship laurels by defeating Notre Dame in its season's finale today. The Wildcats have won seven consecutive games, defeating two intersectional rivals. Tulane and Centre,- and five conference teams, Ohio State, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Wisconsin. Notre Dame, undefeated since 1928, still lias games with and Southern Cahtornia on its schedule, but can clinch western honors and strengthen its claim to a second successive national championship by downing the Wildcats. Playing Conditions Ideal Clear, dry weather with the temperature near the freezing mark provided ideal conditions for the players, but made the stands uncomfortably cool for spectators. Notre Dame ruled a favorite at game time with odds ranging from 2 to 1, to 5 to 2, and Northwestern supporters asking from 7 to 14 points on even money wagers. The betting was heavier than oil any Chicago sports event since the Dempsey-Tunney fight and more than $1,000,000 was expected to change hands on the result of the game. • Each team entered the game minus the services of its star full back, with the absence of Pug Rtntner expected to handicap Northwestern more than the loss of Jumping Joe Savoldi will hurt Notre Dame. Acid Test for All-Americas Rentner was key-man of Northwestern’s effective pass attack, while Notre Dame has two fine full backs in Moon Mullins and Dan Hanley to replace Savoldi. The game will provide the acid test for all-America hopes of rival stars. Notre Dame's leading candidates for place on the mythical allstar team include Frank Carideo, 1929 all-America quarter back: Bert Metzger, 153-pound guard; Captain Tom Conley, end, and Marchy Schwartz and Marty Brill, hard-running half - backs. Northwestern’s nominees include Captain Hard Luck Hank Bruder, who Coach Hanley declares is the greatest football player he ever ha3 seen; Frank Baker, pass-snaring end; Wade Woodworth, bare-headed and bare-legged guard; Lee Hanley, brother of the Wildcat’s coach, and a triple-threat back, and "teb Russell, crashing full back. DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN CHEAPEST OF DECADE State Expenditures of $22,377 Shown in Amos R. Wood’s Report. Although the recent state campaign was the most successful waged by the Democratic party in a decade, it has been the cheapest, according to the report of expenditures filed by the Democratic state committee with the county clerk today. The report, signed by Amos R. Wood, state committee treasurer, showed receipts totaling $24,701.49 and expenditures of $22,377.23. The committee also has an indebtedness of $3,295.22, the report says. The presidential and state campaign of 1928 cost SIIO,OOO, and the state campaign of 1926 was wageit with an expenditure of $40,000. Thirty Dead in Quake By United Press TIRANA, Albania, Nov. 22.—Au earthquake in /he Valona district of southwestern Albania is believed to /have killed thirty persons. Valona is on the Strait of Otranto, opposite the "heel'' of the bootlike portion of southern Italy. r